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An apparently straightforward ruling has been made by the Advertising
Standards Authority on an ad from Rangers claiming to be “Scotland’s most
successful club”. Alas, when it comes to the Glaswegian football giant,
nothing is ever straightforward.

The ASA was required to adjudicate after it received 78 complaints challenging
the assertion on the ground that Rangers, in its present form, had been
incorporated only last year after its financial woes forced the club into
administration.

There isn’t space here to go into the details of the arguments, but quite
rightly the ASA rejected the complaints, accepting that, regardless of the